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Jawaharlal Nehru

1889–1964

Also known as: Nehru, Pandit Nehru, जवाहरलाल नेहरू, पंडित नेहरू

How Jawaharlal Nehru is discussed in this archive

Authored 1 work in the archive.

Referenced in 86 other works , including Minoo Shroff on Doing Business in Nehru's India , The Indian Libertarian , and The Indian Libertarian .

In Role of Ideology in India's Liberalisation : Adhia repeatedly invokes the 'Nehruvian consensus' as the ideological framework that shaped pre-liberalization economic policy.

In Jagdish Bhagwati on Milton Friedman : Bhagwati references Nehru's premiership when characterizing the relative mildness of the First Five Year Plan.

In Minoo Masani's Disenchantment with the Soviet Economic Model - In Coversation with Zareer Masani : Mentioned alongside Krishna Menon as a visitor to the Soviet Union who did not perceive the dictatorial features that Minoo Masani identified.

In Minoo Shroff on Doing Business in Nehru's India : Nehru's economic philosophy and policy choices are the central subject of the entire interview.

In Minoo Shroff on His Uncle A D Shroff : Nehru is invoked repeatedly as the figure Shroff admired personally but opposed on policy grounds.

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Opinion pieces (11)

  • Acharya N G Ranga: The Farmer’s Friend and Swatantra Party Stalwart
    • "Nehru's socialist orientation led to enacting policies encompassing central planning, land redistribution and state control over key industries." · Nehru's statist agenda is the foil against which the Swatantra Party's free-market programme is defined
  • Freedom First's Resistance to Indira Gandhi's Emergency
    • "Indira Gandhi and her sycophants' bid to overturn constitutional provisions was a turn away from the vision of Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhimrao Ambedkar, and Sardar Patel" · Masani's rhetorical deployment of Nehru's constitutional legacy to delegitimise the Emergency amendments
  • India's Nuclear Ambitions: Minoo Masani as a Liberal Peacenik
    • "PM Nehru was a proponent of nuclear disarmament but also endorsed the peaceful use of nuclear energy for development" · establishing Nehru's dual position as the origin point of India's nuclear trajectory
  • Gurcharan Das: Champion of liberal ideals
    • "India's quest for economic equality during the Nehru era severely impacted the economy." · frames the post-independence socialist programme as a Nehru-era project that produced economic damage
    • "Nehru's socialistic tendencies hurt India economically." · the bluntest line on Nehru — directly attributing economic stagnation to his ideological inclinations
  • Hamid Dalwai and the Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal
    • "Jawaharlal Nehru's government introduced and passed the Hindu Code Bill in 1955-56, defying the Hindu orthodoxy; however, his government couldn't reform the unjust laws affecting Muslim women" · identifying Nehru's failure to extend secular reform to Muslim personal law as the gap the Mandal sought to close
    • "Nehru clarified his intentions of introducing a uniform civil law applicable to both Hindus and Muslim in the future as soon as the community was amicable to such an idea" · Nehru's stated commitment to uniform civil code deferred by political calculation
  • Homi Mody’s Liberalism: From Pro-Business to Pro-Market
    • "In January 1956, he was part of the delegation of industrialists to the PM Nehru" · Mody's direct engagement with Nehru to register business concerns about the planning regime
  • Hriday Nath Kunzru, The Liberal Institution Builder
    • "The project also had the support of Pandit Nehru who sought foreign policy scholars to steer India in international affairs" · Nehru's backing for Kunzru's ISIS project as an area where liberal institution-building and state interest converged
  • Minoo Masani : From Socialism to Liberal Swatantra Party
    • "he even urged Pandit Nehru to visit the Soviet Union when the two met in London in 1927." · first encounter between the two, showing Masani's early influence on Nehru
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  • Rajaji's Views on Nuclear Bomb
    • "While the internationalist vision of Nehru and his advocacy of non-alignment is well-recognized and deservedly so, the same is not the case with his comrade-turned-opponent C Rajagopalachari" · sets up Nehru's recognized internationalism as a foil for Rajaji's neglected anti-nuclear stance
  • Rajkumari Amrit Kaur: Philanthropy and Politics
    • "the first woman to hold a Cabinet rank in Nehru’s Cabinet post-Independence" · situates Amrit Kaur's historic ministerial appointment within Nehru's government
  • Swatantra Party : A Big Tent Challenge to Congress Hegemony
    • "What enabled this coalition of disparate groups was the Nehruvian Congress' grip over political power which effectively turned India into one-party democracy and a radical left drift in economic policy." · identifies Nehru's policy agenda as the direct catalyst for the Swatantra coalition

Excerpts (33)

  • A Democracy at War
    • "as handled by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Defence Minister VK Krishna Menon. In a democratic polity, it is obvious that matters of national security in times of crisis would warrant public scrutiny of the government's response." · Nehru is named as the political leader whose decade of appeasement policies led to the 1962 defeat
  • Agricultural Policy of Swatantra Party
    • "The Congress under the lead of Mr Nehru has contented itself with the statement that the subject was decided long ago by Congress resolutions from the days of the Karachi session." · Nehru's Congress is criticised for refusing democratic debate on agricultural policy
  • THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    • "it is salutary to recall that in l958 the late Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, enunciated the Scientific Policy Resolution to Parliament, to affirm its faith in the vital role of science and technology in the transformation of our society." · Nehru's policy declaration is invoked to establish the baseline against which subsequent science-policy gaps are measured
  • Caste System, Greatest Curse of India
    • "In the words of our Prime Minister Nehru – "there can be no equality of status and opportunity within its framework, nor can there be political democracy and much less economic democracy." · Kulkarni mobilises Nehru's authority for the essay's closing demand
    • "Between these two conceptions, conflict is inherent. Only one of them can survive" (J. Nehru, 'Discovery of India')." · the Discovery of India citation seals the argument that caste and democracy cannot coexist
  • Censorship and the Law of Inexorability
    • "That it was banned by the government run by Jawaharlal Nehru, the quintessential liberal, makes the assault on creative freedom even more deplorable." · Nehru's censorship act is used to show that restrictions on artistic freedom are not unique to authoritarian governments — even liberal ones capitulate
  • Economic Reforms In India: Where Are We And Where Do We Go?
    • "He was associated with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as early as 1938 when he served with him in the National Planning Committee." · Nehru is invoked to situate Shroff within the intellectual milieu of Indian economic planning before the two diverged
  • The Education of the Electorate
    • "His only claim was that he could see Pandit Nehru at any time of the day without a formal engagement for an interview!" · The candidate's boasted access to Nehru is used to satirise the patronage-driven rather than merit-driven selection of political representatives
  • For Freedom, Farm and Family
    • "we have come to feel that as long as Mr Nehru is there, none of us need worry about anything." · Rajagopalachari's critique of citizen complacency — Nehru's prestige becomes the symptom of lost democratic habit
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  • Forty-Three Years of Independence
    • "Jawaharlal Nehru made his famous speech wherein he referred to India keeping her tryst with destiny" · Palkhivala opens by invoking the founding moment of independence through Nehru's voice
    • "I would be dishonouring the memory of Pandit Nehru and of his mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, if I try to be economical with the truth." · Palkhivala pledges fidelity to Nehru's legacy as his warrant for frank criticism
  • Fundamental Rights: Our Protection Against Tyranny
    • "When Shri Nehru said that he had not made the Constitution 'so rigid', he meant surely that he had made it 'partly rigid'" · Nehru's words are used to establish that the founders never intended unlimited amendability of Fundamental Rights
  • The Role of Ideas in Politics
    • "Nehru or Gandhi are riding rough-shod over our lives creating havoc and seem to be well-nigh uncontrollable." · Nehru and Gandhi are paired as dominant ideological forces whose misapplied ideas distort Indian political discourse
  • India: Seeing the Future in its Past
    • "a clear legacy of Pandit Nehru's emphasis on science, higher education, and also leading-edge technologies for the public sector." · Rajan credits Nehru's educational investments as the one Nehruvian policy legacy that genuinely strengthened India's human capital
  • Is Socialism Outdated?
    • "Prime Minister Nehru assured the public that "there was no immediate question of bank nationalisation."" · Nehru's assurance is the baseline against which Palkhivala measures the subsequent ministerial contradictions
  • Is This The Freedom We Fought For?
    • "when Pandit Nehru was the Prime Minister, he picked up the telephone and spoke to the Speaker Mr. Mavalankar" · Nehru's respectful treatment of the Speaker's independence is held up as the constitutional ideal that present politicians have abandoned
  • Minoo Masani on Citizenship
    • "two parties be formed – a radical one under Jawaharlal Nehru, a conservative one under Vallabhbhai Patel. Both sides rejected the advice because both wanted to be in office at the same time" · Gandhi's rejected proposal for post-Independence politics, used to diagnose the decay in Indian democracy
  • N. A. Palkhivala's Views on Socialism
    • "On May 22, 1964 Prime Minister Nehru assured the public that "there was no immediate question of bank nationalisation."" · Nehru's public assurance is cited to show the inconsistency between different ministers' statements
  • National Priorities for 1970
    • "It is interesting that Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, while speaking in Kathmandu in the middle fifties, gave the answer to Mr Jagjivan Ram when he said, "Socialism in a poor country means only the distribution of poverty."" · Nehru's own line is turned against the Bombay session's redistribution rhetoric
    • "a similar attack was started by Mr Jawaharlal Nehru after the Nagpur Resolution in 1959. That, in fact, was the provocation for the coming into existence of my Party." · Masani identifies the Nagpur Resolution as Swatantra's founding antagonist, making Nehru the original target the new attack revives
  • Pitfalls in Our Industrial Policy
    • "Prime Minister announced on the 9th November 1954, before the National Development Council, that “the means of production should be socially owned, and controlled for the benefit of society as a whole.”" · Nehru's declaration cited as the germ of the economic revolution that displaced private enterprise
    • "Prime Minister remarked in the Lok Sabha- “We cannot progress except by State initiative and by enlarging the public sector and except also by controlling the private sector.”" · further quote establishing Nehru's role as architect of the socialist industrial policy the essay critiques
  • Population Causes Prosperity
    • "Instead of seeing the future of India in terms of thousands of self-governing and self-sufficient village republics (the Gandhi-Nehru vision), we can see India as an urban civilisation." · the Gandhi-Nehru vision is the ideological foil against which Chakraverti advances his pro-urbanisation thesis
  • Rajaji- Man with a Mission
    • "Congress had become the largest monolithic party and Nehru its unquestioned leader. There was no one in Congress to criticize him. Even if there was criticism, Nehru resented and silenced the critics." · Nehru's political monopoly is identified as the structural condition that made Rajaji's opposition project necessary
  • Sharad Joshi on Liberalism in India
    • "Nehru was himself full of social effervescence since his visits to the USSR." · Joshi traces how Nehru's socialism came to dominate over the liberal platform in the independence movement
    • "Rajaji, who had a very high standing among the followers of Gandhi and who became the first Indian Governor General of independent India, had correctly foreseen the disaster that Nehru's license-permit quota Raj would produce." · Nehru's economic legacy identified as the failure that Rajaji's Swatantra Party sought to reverse
  • Sikkim – Through Other Eyes
    • "The most influential and eloquent proponents of this variant of Indian exceptionalism included Pandit Nehru, VK Krishna Menon, Indira Gandhi, KM Panikkar." · Nehru named as a leading advocate of non-alignment and anti-colonial foreign policy rhetoric
  • Soviet Dissidents, Detente and Liberty
    • "conflict between two strong versions of nationalism (Jawaharlal Nehru)." · Nehru's interpretation of the Cold War cited as an alternative framing to the dominant liberal-vs-communist explanation
  • The Education of the Electorate
    • "His only claim was that he could see Pandit Nehru at any time of the day without a formal engagement for an interview!" · Nehru used as an index of political patronage, access to Nehru stood in place of merit for candidacy
  • The Essence of Democracy
    • "control of the dominating heights of the economy, as Jawaharlal Nehru grandiloquently described it, through giant industrial units" · Masani critiques Nehru's statist economic language as intellectual cover for authoritarian economic policy
  • The Individual and Indian Constitution
    • "Pandit Nehru has violently opposed the idea of the Supreme Court being the final arbiter on the quantum of compensation on the plea that the Supreme Court ought not to make itself a third chamber of legislature." · Nehru's opposition to judicial oversight used as an example of executive overreach threatening constitutional balance
  • The Light of the Constitution
    • "Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said: "A fundamental right should be looked upon, not from the point of view of any particular difficulty of the moment, but as something that you want to make permanent in the Constitution."" · Nehru's own Constituent Assembly words invoked to show the 1976 amendments betray his original intent
  • The Place of Free Enterprise in a Backward Economy
    • "Prime Minister Nehru, who is a great believer in democracy, said at the A.I.C.C. meeting in January last that he would prefer slow progress to risking individual independence for rapid progress." · Nehru quoted to expose the contradiction between his democratic rhetoric and his government's economic regimentation
  • The Principle of State Interference
    • "of which the masterpilot is Jawaharlal Nehru, have been based on European experience and European speculation." · Nehru named as the architect of the imported socialist revolution the author is critiquing
    • "The socialistic pattern of society that is being imposed on our people by the "idealism" of Jawaharlal Nehru is in fact the end-result of a distorted reading of Eur-american experience and thought" · Nehru's socialism characterised as a misreading of European history
  • Nani Palkhivala: The Task Before A Free People
    • "Jawaharlal Nehru's description of the condition of India under British domination must have come home with the atrocities of the Emergency to countless people:" · Palkhivala uses Nehru's own words about colonial oppression to indict the Emergency as a form of indigenous colonialism
  • The US-India Alignment in Cold War
    • "the foreign policy conduct of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru" · framing of the editorial's central critique
    • "Mr Nehru would then be not justified in making a fine metaphysical distinction after the manner of a Vedantin" · direct criticism of Nehru's post-war philosophical rationalisation of Chinese aggression
  • To Prosperity through Freedom
    • "Today we have a similar situation in the country with Nehru as supreme leader" · comparison of Congress under Gandhi and Nehru as examples of uncritical ideological deference
    • "Nehru has the vision of socialised society with industrialisation carried to its apogee, full of science and technology" · Nehru's vision contrasted with Gandhi's and with Swatantra's free-market alternative
  • What is Fascism? By Minoo Masani
    • "as Jawaharlal Nehru once wrote, "Fascism makes of the State a God on whose altar individual freedom and rights must be sacrificed"" · Masani cites Nehru's formulation as the pithy encapsulation of fascism's essential character

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